Greek, roman, and egyptian arts in the period up to the fifth post christian century. Its pictures are known to us especially by wall, floor, and ceiling painitings as well as by pictures on commodities as vases or coffins and of course by numberless sculptures.
This implies the representation of constructional objects (houses, squares, bridges etc.) for their own sake, thus serving not only as staffage, background, or as attribute. There were architecture pictures already in ancient Pompeji. In Middle Ages depicted constructions just indicate a certain scene. The actual architecture picture arises in the 16th century in Netherlands(f. e. “Brueghel's Tower of Babel”). Dutch artists prevailed here up until the 17th century, and were followed by Italian artists in the 18th century. In modern times the representation of architecture has become a domain of photographers.